The house of the
president of Peru, Dina Boluarte
, was
raided
in the last hours of this Friday by a team of prosecutors and agents of the National Police, as part of a preliminary investigation opened against the president for the
alleged commission of the crime of enrichment. illicit,
as a result of the use of
Rolex watches
that the president would not have declared as part of her assets.
In images shown by local media, a group of agents can be seen breaking the lock on the main door of Boluarte's home in the Lima district of Surquillo, after not being attended to when knocking repeatedly on the home.
Local media reported that
the ruler is not at home
and that only one of her children was there, although one of the president's lawyers later arrived, while the Public Ministry has not yet offered any formal information about the intervention. .
According to the radio station
RPP
, the
raid for seizure registration purposes
was approved by Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley after a request presented by the Attorney General, Juan Carlos Villena, as part of the investigation of the alleged commission of the crime of illicit enrichment, in the form of omission to record statements in documents.
The procedure aimed to seize the Rolex watches whose origin and purchase Dina Boluarte has avoided specifying. Photo EFE/ Paolo Aguilar
In recent days, the Presidency of Peru and the Public Ministry have maintained a controversy regarding the proceedings initiated as part of the investigation opened by the ruler's alleged failure to declare her luxury watches.
Last Wednesday, the Prosecutor's Office reported that visits to the ruler both at her home and at the Government Palace were frustrated, while the Presidency assured that representatives of the Public Ministry were assisted by staff from Boluarte's office, who received a notification for the president.
Supreme Prosecutor Hernán Mendoza declared before the Congressional Oversight Commission that the president "had frustrated" the investigations by not responding to the summons made for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
After this situation, Boluarte's legal defense asked to reschedule the proceedings in the investigation of the luxury watches case that the president did not declare and for which she is being investigated for illicit enrichment.
Police stationed near the house of Dina Boluarte, president of Peru, in the middle of the raid. Photo AP Photo/Martin Mejia
In response to this request, the attorney general commented that the president's attitude was a
"clear indicator of rebellion"
that only "delays the outcome of the investigation."
Television Channel
N
showed images showing that a large police contingent remained during the early hours of this Saturday, guarding the surroundings of the president's house, while agents from the Crime Investigation Division remained inside. High Complexity (Diviac) of the National Police together with a team of prosecutors.
The three luxury watches that commit Dina Boluarte
The investigation into Dina Boluarte for the use of luxury watches began in mid-March when the journalistic program “La Encerrona” stated that it reviewed thousands of official photos in an investigation into the watches used by the president and highlighted among all of them
a Rolex that In Peru it is worth up to 14,000 dollars.
Other programs then detected at least two more Rolexes.
Boluarte, a 61-year-old lawyer, was a modest official in a district identity registration office until her inauguration as the country's vice president on July 28, 2021, with then-president Pedro Castillo. She became his Minister of Social Inclusion with a salary of $8,136 per month.
When parliament removed Castillo on December 7, 2022, Boluarte assumed the presidency with a lower salary, $4,200. Shortly after he began exhibiting luxury watches. All officials are required to declare their assets to avoid possible cases of illicit enrichment, and Boluarte's asset declarations do not record any Rolex.
It is not the only case pending with the justice system of the president, whose popularity in February was barely 8%, according to the Ipsos Peru firm. The prosecution denounced her in November before Congress for aggravated homicide and serious injuries in relation to the 49 deaths in clashes with security forces during protests demanding her resignation.
With information from AP and EFE.
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